History & Evolution

* Drawn from Dozens of largely un-published texts dating from the 5th to the 17th centuries

In all source Tantras, Chakras played a specific and pivotal role in the daily performance of the innovative Yoga Vinyāsa (‘Sequence of Yoga Practices’)
that defined the Tantric tradition (ca. 500-1400 A.D.).

Until now, our understanding of Chakras derives largely from a relatively recent translation of a 16th century ‘Hatha Yoga’ manual based on Tantras
written centuries earlier. Unfortunately, it does not contain the core Vinyāsa of Yoga practices that informs its own chakra system, the sole function
of which was to serve as an internal guide for this missing practice. As a result, the chakra system known to us today is effectively useless without
it.

Drawing from dozens of un-published Tantric texts, in this course Christopher Tompkins will finally reveal the critical role that Chakras played in
the powerfully innovative Yoga that defined the Tantric tradition (ca. 500-1400 A.D.), one that inspired the embodied vinyāsa of our practice today.

‘The source power (Śhakti) who fuses together the sun and moon into fire is to be envisioned in the shape of a ‘Coiled’ (Kundalini) sprout within the
region of the heart.”